Appearance
Along the sides, the body is silver with a pink or purplish hue and black speckles that form a weakly defined lateral stripe. The dorsum is tan and the belly is silver. The dorsal, anal, and caudal fins and the snout are often tinted red or orange. Males are not readily distinguished from females. The dorsal fin insertion is slightly posterior to or directly above the pelvic fin insertion. This species typically has 34 - 41 lateral line scales, 8 anal fin rays, and a pharyngeal tooth count formula of 1, 4 - 4, 1.Distribution
North America: upper sections of the Mobile Bay basin, above the Fall Line, including the Cahaba, Coosa and Tallapoosa river systems, in Alabama, northwestern Georgia, and extreme southeastern Tennessee, USA.References:
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